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Ruby on Rails concern example: making an ActiveRecord item sortable. Adapted from: http://say26.com/show-us-your-production-code-1-concerns
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# app/models/item.rb | |
require 'concerns/sortable' | |
class Item < ActiveRecord::Base | |
include Sortable | |
attr_accessible :title | |
end |
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# app/controllers/items_controller.rb | |
class ItemsController < ApplicationController | |
def index | |
@items = Item.sorted(params[:sort], params[:direction]) | |
respond_to do |format| | |
format.html | |
format.json { render json: @items } | |
end | |
end | |
end |
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# app/models/concerns/sortable.rb | |
require 'active_support/concern' | |
module Sortable | |
extend ActiveSupport::Concern | |
module ClassMethods | |
def sorted(column, direction = nil) | |
column = map_column(column) | |
# Create a string to sort with (e.g. "title ASC") | |
sort_string = [column, direction].reject(&:blank?).join(' ') | |
order(sort_string) | |
end | |
private | |
def map_column(column) | |
mapping = { | |
# param => table column | |
'name' => 'title' | |
# etc... | |
} | |
column = mapping[column] | |
end | |
end | |
end |
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